Avarice Quote by William E. Gladstone

The love of dominion is the most engrossing passion.

— Tacitus

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

— Roger L'Estrange

Avarice is the most oppose of all characters to that of God Almighty, whose alone it is to give and not receive.

— William Shenstone

“Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and…

— Thomas Paine

It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode…

— Thomas Paine

Avarice misapprehends itself almost always. There is no passion which more often will miss its aim, nor upon which the present has so much…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.

— William Hazlitt

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

— Oscar Wilde

Is there a word more passionate than passion? Obsession, total immersion, the feeling that everything else doesn't matter.

— Cynthia Ozick

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield

Every true passion thinks only of itself.

— Stendhal